Chapter Nineteen: Poisoned

A/N: Edited 8/31/15

Sango sat next to Miroku looking up at the sky. She twitched her fingers in dismay, hoping to see Kirara fly down. The demon cat was no where to be seen. Sango looked back at Myoga, hoping he would continue with his story about Inuhidoi. The old flea had gone silent on Kagome's shoulder, muttering to himself.

"Is there more Master Myoga?" Miroku asked.

"Well, it gets complicated after that." Myoga answered.

Kouga and Kagome sat together. Kagome had finally gotten out of the wolf's lap and had laid her head on his shoulder. Shippo was between Miroku and herself. Sango now wished she had Kirara, her warmth was deeply wanted at the moment. Sesshomaru stood off to the side with Ginta and Hakkaku off to his right, muttering to themselves.

"Kirara hurry back." Sango sighed.

"Is everything okay Sango?" Miroku asked.

"Kirara is..." Sango suddenly felt Miroku's hand gracefully stroke her palm. She snapped her head to his. Sango's first instinct was to slap him, but his hand just rubbed hers and there was nothing perverted about it. She looked at the monk, and his face was with deepest concern.

"I know Sango." he said. Sango felt her face beginning to blush. Kagome looked at her with interest, and then the priestess gave her a warm smile. Shippo glared at Miroku, shaking his head.

"Are you not going to slap him?" The young fox demon asked.

"Not this time Shippo." Sango felt herself smile and gave Miroku a warm stare. Miroku smiled back.

"What would Inuhidoi do once he takes mutts body, flea?" Kouga asked suddenly.

"He would complete his mission." Myoga answered. "As I knew him, he wanted no weak descendents. He had tried to kill The Great Dog Demon Lord's father before he had a child, but luckily Inuhidoi was a little to late."

"How awful." Sango said.

"Myoga, what will happen to InuYasha?" Kagome asked. Myoga sighed and adjusted his position on Kagome's shoulder.

"He well...his soul will break."

"Break?" Miroku asked.

"His soul will break unless Lord InuYasha can force Inuhidoi's soul out from his body. InuYasha-sama's soul will break." The old flea answered.

"Mutt can't break, he's to damn stubborn." Kouga snorted. Kagome turned to him and smiled.

"Thanks Kouga." Kagome said. Kouga looked at the young priestess and sighed.

"Well I rather not talk how weak he is in front of you, Kagome." Kouga smiled. Kagome's smile faded into a frown and sighed.

"He will if he knows." Sesshomaru suddenly said. Everyone turned to him.

"Lord Sesshomaru? You don't mean..."

"Yes I do." the Demon Lord said.

"What do you mean if he knows?" Sango asked. "Knows what?"

"None of your concern." Sesshomaru growled. Sango shrank back.

"I think InuYasha will beat him. It's his body isn't it?" Ginta asked.

"I don't know. We are dealing with direct descendant of a God" Miroku put his hand on his chin.

"But it's his soul InuYasha's fighting." Kagome pointed out.

"It's harder that way actually Lady Kagome." Myoga said. "Removing a soul from the body is much harder then destroying a physical body. Lord InuYasha would have it easier if he was fighting Inuhidoi in person. Though he probably would still lose."

"What?" Kouga snapped. "What do you mean he would still lose?"

"Inuhidoi is extremely powerful." Myoga said simply.

"In what way?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Let's just say this, our lives are extremely short compared to his. He can see things that we living things can not even comprehend." Myoga said.

"Like what?" Sango asked. She looked in the sky once more. It was still too dark to see, but Sango would immediately recognize Kirara gliding across the sky if she had been there.

"Like beings that do not belong in this world, Lady Sango."

"How powerful is Inuhidoi?" Kagome asked.

"Sigh. More powerful then all of us, including Lord InuYasha, combined." Myoga sighed.

"I don't believe such nonsense." Sesshomaru snarled.

"Lord Sesshomaru, I'm sorry. But a God's power is much stronger then any demon's." Mygoa answered, shrinking back, anticipating Sesshomaru's wrath. Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes, which blinked red, and sneered exposing his fangs.

"Lord Sesshomaru, Master Myoga respects you as a powerful Demon Lord. He is just referring to how powerful a God is. He is not calling you weak, you're a very strong demon." Miroku said, jumping up. Sango looked at Miroku, how was he that brave to stand up to Sesshomaru like that? Sesshomaru snarled, he was obviously still angry about the whole matter. Even though Sango had not known InuYasha's brother that long, she had never seen him express so much emotion. Maybe it's InuYasha, Sango thought.

Suddenly she snapped up. The sky suddenly went bright blue and there stood Ah-Un with the toad demon with Jaken in its mouth.

"Jaken." Sesshomaru smoothly became calm again and stared down at his servant. He sniffed the air then looked at Ah-Un, his eyes became slightly wider as he found the dragon's seat empty. "Where is Rin?"

"Forgive me my Lord!" Jaken fell to his knees and cried on Sesshomaru's tail. "A demon got her!"

"What?" Sesshomaru growled. He sniffed the air with more determination. "What demon?"

"It actually looked like your half-demon, brother InuYasha, my Lord." Jaken mumbled.

"What!?" Kagome screamed. "Where is InuYasha?"

"That filthy demon was not that half-demon you human wrench!" Jaken sneered.

Kouga hissed and stood up. "Talk like that to Kagome again I'll..."

"Kouga I don't care, it doesn't bother me." Kagome said.

Sango stood up. "Jaken did he have stripes like this on his chest?" Sango showed the example once more.

"Yes." The toad demon answered.

"Then it was InuYasha, meaning Inuhidoi has a hold of Rin." Miroku said.

Kagome gasped. "No! InuYasha would not let him hurt Rin!" The priestess yelled. She grabbed Jaken by his clothes and shook him. "Where is he!?"

"Let me go you..." Jaken started. Sango noticed burns all up the servant's arms.

"Jaken, your arms." Sango said.

"Stupid demon reversed my attack of the Staff of Two Heads!" Jaken snorted.

"How the hell did he do that?" Kouga snapped.

Suddenly Sango felt something was wrong. The others were so into the whereabouts of Rin that they didn't notice the change in the air that surrounded them. Sango grabbed herboomerang and moved toward the wood were she sensed the demonic aura. Sango glanced behind her, she did not want to go alone.

"Shippo come here." Sango hissed. The fox demon bounded over and hopped onto her shoulder.

"Where are we going Sango?" he asked.

"Shhh...I sense something."

"And you wanted to bring me along?" Shippo gulped.

"You're the only one who can run faster for help if I need it." Sango said.

"Okay, but I'm not fighting any demons."

"Sure thing."

Sango leveled her boomerang on her shoulder and her other hand wrapped around her sword hilt. She scanned the area as she walked closer to the demonic aura she sensed. It was the same aura, Sango thought, that Kagome had sensed all that time ago at the picnic. If they had known then, maybe InuYasha would not be in the condition he was in.

Shippo shivered on her shoulder. His fox fire glowing brightly in his small palm, its blue glow lighting a path. Sango felt her foot snap on a branch and stopped. She listened and heard nothing and continued on. Sango moved her hands over the barks of the trees that she passed; even they would know when a demon passed their trunks.

A branch suddenly snapped, Sango froze. This time it had not been her. Shippo's tail puffed out, but both stayed silent. Shippo put his fox fire down leaving them in complete darkness, except for the stars that glowed above them. Her boomerang at ready, Sango bit her lip and waited. A small clearing was ahead and a enormous shadow came into view. Sango felt Shippo shrink back on her shoulder.

"Do you think that's InuYasha?" He whispered.

"Shhh." Sango put her finger to her lips. She edged closer; her demon extermination skills flowing through her body as she slowly and silently crept closer to the clearing. It was InuYasha, but part of him was too hard to see. Sango did see a unconscious Rin in his arms as he stared at the sky. Shippo whimpered.

"I know you're there."

Suddenly Sango felt poisonous blades whip by her, sending Shippo flying into the bushes. She hissed and brought up her boomernag to protect her body.

"InuYasha I know you can hear me!" Sango shouted. This was the worst predicament, she was alone fighting Inuhidoi. Shippo popped out of the bushes. Shaking, he hid behind Sango's leg. InuYasha turned to her.

Sango had traveled with InuYasha for almost a year now, and she had never seen InuYasha so...different. Sango felt her emotion of fear take her body and felt her own feet start to back up. Shippo clung to her ankle chattering his teeth. "InuYasha please! Don't let Inuhidoi control you."

"It is Sango, isn't it?"

Sango flinched; even Naraku's voice didn't sound that evil. How the hell did Inuhidoi know her name? "Put Rin down, she is not involved in this."

"Sesshomaru is looking for her then?"

"I repeat, she is not involved in this."

"She is Sango; she is the small softness that corrupts Sesshomaru's heart."

Sango growled, he was accusing Rin of being Sesshomaru's weakness! She gritted her teeth, her boomerang ready to be thrown.

"You won't throw it Sango; I can see it in your eyes."

"How do you know me Inuhidoi!?"

"I've read all of InuYasha's thoughts, about you, about all his companions."

"What the hell do you want with InuYasha?!" Sango yelled.

"His body."

Movement behind InuYasha caught Sango's eye. At first she thought it was Kirara, but there were no flames that would indicate that Kirara was there. Whatever it was the night air covered its form. Sango gritted her teeth.

"You have no right to InuYasha's body!"

"Woman, I have all the right."

With a swing of his hand, four poisonous blades came shooting towards her. She ducked and blocked them once again with her boomernag. They began to melt right through the bone.

"Ugh! Shippo go get help!" Shippo ran and began to scramble toward the woods when the blades stopped coming t her Hiraikotsu and aimed for Shippo. "Shippo look out! HIRAIKOTSU!" The boomerang flew blocking the blades from harming the young demon as he scrambled away and out of sight. But now her boomerang was melting in InuYasha's attack. And now Sango had only her sword to protect her.

InuYasha looked at her; he dropped Rin to the ground and with a burst of speed ran right for her. Sango moved just in time to avoid his claws, but she was to slow with her feet. Sango felt her weight change as her ankle got snagged around InuYasha's foot. She rolled over grabbing were she thought boomerang was, but to her horror it was not there. Sango turned to InuYasha and literally felt her body go numb.

"Oh my god..."

The movement behind InuYasha earlier was not this, Sango blinked several times hoping the night air had affected her vision. There were two enormous black like dragon wings attached to InuYasha's back. Sango felt her body refuse to move because of the shock for what she was seeing.

"What have you done to InuYasha?" Her voice sounded like she was drowning in water. The next thing she felt was InuYasha's hand wrapping around her throat. Sango felt her vision really start to blur, she kicked and swung her hidden knife that was located on her wrist slicing InuYasha's face. She didn't want to, but her own instincts had taken over to protect her own life.

"Is that best you can do exterminator? You're only human after all."

"Go to hell."

"I am hell."

Sango felt pain shooting through her neck, one of InuYasha's claws sank into her skin poisoning her. She gasped and felt her adrenaline pump swiftly into her muscles. Her fight suddenly went into a blind frenzy as she kicked and sliced at InuYasha.

Suddenly InuYasha released her and growled.

"Run Sango!"

Sango felt her body crash into the ground, it wasn't moving. She felt the poison leak through her system, and it was a lot more poison then before. Sango could barley move a muscle. A loud whoosh could be heard and she felt something soft and furry pick her up. She could barley see, but she knew.

"Kirara...?"

The demon cat flew off into the sky with Sango on her back. Sango looked down to see a outline in the sky following them at terrific speed. Inuhidoi had won over InuYasha again.

"Faster..." It was the last thing Sango remembered as unconsciousness fell over her.